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Scallion

A nation divided

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Reading Time: 2 minutesDOMINIC MAGISTRO Special to The Scallion   America could handle the rampant racism, gun violence, embryo murders and McDonald’s Szechuan Sauce riots, but there is no possible way a nation could withstand the most divisive question since the dawn of computers: “How is the abbreviated form of the graphics interchange......
Life & Arts

Tradition marries competition: Day of the Dead to be celebrated with altar competition

Reading Time: 2 minutesMORGAN HENDERSON Staff Writer   Day of the Dead will be celebrated on campus this semester by mixing some competition with tradition. On Nov. 1, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., an altar competition will take place in the Reed Library Commons. Some of those competing include students from professor Diane......
Life & Arts

Homecoming royalty crowned after Fredonia’s Got Talent

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Reading Time: 2 minutes[metaslider id=10167]   JAMES LILLIN Staff Writer On Friday night, students gathered in Steele Hall to watch a showcase of talented SUNY Fredonia students in a spectacle that was part pep-rally and part dance show, all of which culminated in the crowning of this year’s homecoming royalty. Although the event......
Opinion

From the Desk of Ben Anderson, Copy Editor

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Reading Time: 2 minutesThe fortunate future of Fredonia Philosophy: An introspective   Implemented in the Spring of the past academic year, the Right Serving, Right Sizing plan encouraged academic department heads to review their own curriculums in an overall attempt to increase enrollment for future classes. The plan also set out to add......
Life & Arts

Harvey Breverman: A decade of drawing

Reading Time: 3 minutes[metaslider id=10221]   ELYSE GRIECO Special to the Leader   University at Buffalo’s own Professor Emeritus Harvey Breverman has brought a decade’s worth of art to the SUNY Fredonia campus this month. Breverman’s collection, “A Decade of Drawing 2005-2015 (Idiosyncratic Amalgams and Disparate Composites)” consists of forty-six portraits of writers,......
News

Gerald Gray: A legacy of fighting mediocrity

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Reading Time: 3 minutesSETH MICHAEL MEYER Assistant News Editor   On Oct. 15, Fredonia lost a great mentor, a loving husband and brilliant musician. Gerald Thomas Gray, associate professor at Fredonia’s College of Music, died after a valiant fight against pancreatic cancer at the age of 51. An email from Melvin Unger, the......
News

Epistolary sleuthing: A new look into the disputed letters of Robert Frost

Reading Time: 4 minutesVICTOR SCHMITT-BUSH Staff Writer   There are very few, if any, Pulitzer Prize winning American poets with a standing reputation laden with as much controversy as Robert Frost. As a poet of “countrified wisdom” and “yankee stoicism” as expressed by Fredonia English professor Natalie Gerber, little is known of Frost’s......

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